If we do, I welcome it. Although I doubt we have the leaders in the house and senate to do this.
We need to start dropping them like they dropped Foley, Delay, Allen, ect. If there is to be a cleansing, let them play as well!
I share those doubts, especially in regard to the Senate, but all that means is we can't lean on them for much support, if any at all. "We, The People" are going to have to shoulder this load, and fight this fight from the local level up, since it isn't getting fought from the top-down; there's no Reagan up there carrying the banner. So, we've got to act as if we're beginning from scratch and start with extreme "seismic retrofits" to the foundations of our local and State committees.
Look, being from the California blue zone, I don't entertain any illusions about what liberals want in the long run; and I don't entertain any illusions that moderating the stance of the GOP is an effective strategy for staving off the institutionalization of liberal policies. When the GOP goes to the center, the left simply runs farther left and continues applying the same leftward pressure as before; continues maligning the GOP with all the same, tired old saws as before, and the concession of moving to the left ends up gaining the GOP nothing. The GOP CANNOT move far enough to the left to appease liberals, but every time the GOP moves to the left, it damages this country by further betraying the conservative principles upon which the Constitution is founded.
Once we confess that truth, it becomes blatantly obvious that moving to the left in an effort to be conciliatory is nothing so much as it's playing RIGHT INTO their hands; it's EXACTLY the reaction they planned; they read the GOP mind and they KNEW that we would cave to the pressure and go center at election time. Then, having gone center at election time, they apply rhetorical pressure to make the GOP LIVE in that center AFTER the elections are over, AND WE DO IT because we'll be bludgeoned to death in the media for four years and go down in flames at the next election if we don't. THE WHOLE MOVE-LEFT AND HOLD strategy is a gargantuan leftist trap engineered to slowly shift the GOP and the entire, National political discourse to the left, leaving conservative principles high and dry.
THIS CANNOT CONTINUE IF WE INTEND TO PRESERVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
IF that is our intent -- and I firmly believe that many here would prefer to die before allowing it all just sink into the sands of time -- then our strategy MUST CHANGE.
How?
We must no longer pretend that the politics of party are more important than the conservative principles that comprise our Constitutional foundation.
We must no longer tolerate betrayal of those principles; such betrayal must be viewed as an intolerable assault upon the very Republic itself.
We must no longer operate under the illusion that moving to the center to win an election is either A) a win for the country, or B) an acceptable compromise. If evil prevails when good men do nothing; evil is aided and abetted when purportedly good men concede to it. This practice MUST BE REGARDED WITH COMPLETE ABHORRENCE.
I do not suffer any deception that leads me to think that such an elemental transformation of the GOP political scene will be rapid, nor that it will not meet with great resistance from within GOP ranks; to the contrary, I expect MOST of the resistance to come from card-carrying GOP members. I also do not suffer from any deception that leads me to think that this kind of transformation is unnecessary. In the 30 years of my most heightened political awareness, the leftward shift of both major political parties, the public mind-frame, and the National culture, are all self-evident, pronounced and damnable. The decades-old GOP strategy of going moderate must be regarded as a FAILURE; despite the fact that some election victories have come from it, the continued leftward National political slide mocks them to scorn, and establishes -- to my mind, unarguably -- that those victories were not only mostly hollow, but were, from the perspective of our Constitutional foundations, entirely Pyrrhic.
Given all of this, the left could implement no more powerful political strategy than to convince the GOP leadership to continue utilizing the move-center strategy of political appeasement. They could concoct no scheme more supportive of their long-range goal to turn these United States into a proto-european Socialist Mecca, than to continue cultivating in the public mind the lie that "Conservatives must moderate their views to win".
FRiends, WE, THE PEOPLE face this choice, this DUTY, this RIGHTEOUS CAUSE: to unmask and vigorously oppose, to the very last drop of our lifeblood, the Foundation-destroying lie of "move center to win"; or to acquiesce and embrace the demise of the American Experiment, conceding that human nature is so beyond remedy -- even beyond the help of The Almighty -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people must perish from the Earth.
IT HAS COME TO THIS. CHOOSE WELL.
-- HKMk23